Tag Archives: Sidney Poitier

Sunday Open Thread | Sidney Poitier Week

Posted on April 26, 2015 by rikyrah

Celebrating Sidney Poitier Humanitarian and Civil Rights advocate. Sidney Poitier “predicts” Barack Obama (1967) Oprah’s Dinner of a Lifetime with Sidney Poitier (Part 1-4) August 12, 2009 President Barack Obama honors Sidney Poitier with the Presidential Medal of Freedom

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Saturday Open Thread | Sidney Poitier Week

Posted on April 25, 2015 by rikyrah

Have a great weekend everyone! We continue with Mr. Sidney Poitier Week! In the Heat of the Night Clips Buck and the Preacher Love this movie! Buck and the Preacher is a 1972 American Western film starring Sidney Poitier as … Continue reading →

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Friday Open Thread | Sidney Poitier Week

Posted on April 24, 2015 by rikyrah

Happy Friday, Everyone!  More Sidney Poitier Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER, Katharine Houghton, Isabel Sanford, 1967 GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER, Roy Glenn, Beah Richards, Sidney Poitier, 1967. GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER, Sidney Poitier, … Continue reading →

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Thursday Open Thread | Sidney Poitier Week

Posted on April 23, 2015 by rikyrah

Today’s featured movie is A Patch of Blue and Uptown Saturday Night! Wiki: A Patch of Blue is a 1965 American drama film directed by Guy Green about the relationship between a black man, Gordon (played by Sidney Poitier), and … Continue reading →

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Wednesday Open Thread | Sidney Poitier Week

Posted on April 22, 2015 by rikyrah

Happy HUMP day, Everyone! We hope you’re enjoying Sidney Poitier week with 3 Chics. To Sir, With Love To Sir, with Love is a 1967 British drama film, starring Sidney Poitier, that deals with social and racial issues in an … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Open Thread | Sidney Poitier

Posted on April 21, 2015 by rikyrah

  More Sidney! Today’s feature is Lilies of the Field. Wiki: Lilies of the Field is a 1963 film adapted by James Poe from the 1962 novel with the same name by William Edmund Barrett, and stars Sidney Poitier, Lilia … Continue reading →

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Monday Open Thread | Sidney Poitier Week

Posted on April 20, 2015 by rikyrah

Hello Everyone! This week 3 Chics is featuring the life and works of Sir Sidney Poitier. Mr. Poitier is a man of dignity, grace, a man of enormous courage and conviction, who in my opinion, never sold out to Hollywood. … Continue reading →

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Thursday Open Thread | TV Show Theme Songs

Posted on May 1, 2014 by SouthernGirl2

In the Heat of the Night is an American television series based on the motion picture and novel of the same name starring Carroll O’Connor as the white police chief William Gillespie, and Howard Rollins as the African-American police detective … Continue reading →

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Tuesday Open Thread | Blaxploitation Movies Week

Posted on September 10, 2013 by rikyrah

Today’s films are a trio put together by Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier: Uptown Saturday Night, Let’s Do It Again, and A Piece of the Action. Uptown Saturday Night Uptown Saturday Night is a 1974 comedy film written by Richard … Continue reading →

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